384 Thomas Quigley FIGURE 1. Development of Railroad and Telegraph Networks in Central Europe to 1866 16 Brahms, born in 1833, was very much a person of the steam train age. But because he was born relatively early in this age, he didn’t have the same kind of experiences or connections that some of his contemporary composers were having. For example:–he never worked for the railway, like Mily Balakirev, or Czech composer Emanuel Chvála, or Romanian composer Georges Cosmovici,–he never had a family member who worked for the railway, like Zoltán Kodály or Englishman George Butterworth, whose fathers worked as station manager and general manager respectively for railways in their home countries,–and unlike Hugo Wolf, as far as I know Brahms never left a manuscript score in a train station.17 16 GrautvornixZurich: Entwicklung des Eisenbahn- und Telegraphennetzes, in: Mitteleuropa, Wiki -media Commons category: Transport Maps of Europe, 24.11.2008, <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenbahnen-Telegrafen-Mitteleuropa-um1850.jpg>, 27.6.2011.17 Source of this train-related information is each individual composer’s respective article in: Grove Mu-sic Online, in: Oxford Music Online, <http://oxfordmusiconline.com>, 27.6.2011.